PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Psy
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* provides important insights into people & used in all different careers (counselling, selling cars, consulting, management, activism, etc. ) and researches maybe even manipulating others: the incredible diversity is what makes psych fascinating & challenging. These are lessons that a century plus of psychology research has taught us, and they can deeply change the way you understand yourself, other people and the world around you. Should be able to refer back and start to make more sense as you do that. Reality is a story, told to us by our brains. We don"t live in reality, we do not touch reality directly but only gives internal self-experience. Our experiences do not reflect reality itself, but rather a construction, or representation of reality: this construction process involves a lot of guesswork filling in the gaps . We are not exposed to the entire reality but a subset of it: this subjective representation occurs within the brain.
